There’s something about the process of taking all these threads It’s laborious; you’re sitting for hours Pulling through hundreds and hundreds of threads You tie them all on And they’re secure And you can weave You can make something happen And affect the patterns I was interested in how I could disturb or disrupt Traditional patterns And how I could create hybrid patterns Something that I find very reassuring about weaving Is that it cannot just fall off the loom Once those threads are all on there I have total control over them The threads stay where they are As long as I don’t cut them off It would take a drastic move or act like that For them to be loose Weaving, I think, is something symbolically Or metaphorically Which connects and brings strength